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NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER, INC. v. RATE SETTING COMM.

384 Mass. 46 (1981)

423 N.E.2d 786

NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER, INC. & others vs. RATE SETTING COMMISSION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Ward & George A. Cooke, Jr., for New England Medical Center, Inc.

John E. Rogerson, John H. Clymer & Paul J. Hartnett, Jr., for Leonard Morse Hospital & another.

David S. Szabo & John A. Norris for New England Memorial Hospital.

Kenneth Laurence, Carolyn P. Jacoby, Lee T. Gesmer & Michael K. Loucks for Addison Gilbert Hospital & others.

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, Carl Valvo, Donald K. Stern, William L. Pardee, Assistant Attorneys General, & Pamela S. Horst for Rate Setting Commission.

Edward J. Dailey & Dennis J. LaCroix for Blue Cross of Massachusetts, Inc.

Michael C. Donahue & Andrew M. Levenson for Framingham Union Hospital, Inc.

Kenneth A. Behar, Edward D. Kalman, John F. O'Leary & Patrick R. Carroll for Massachusetts Hospital Association, Inc., amicus curiae.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

The main issue presented by this action is whether the Rate Setting Commission (commission) is authorized by G.L.c. 176A, § 5, to withdraw its approval of an existing interim agreement regulating reimbursement rates between Blue Cross of Massachusetts, Inc. (Blue Cross), and ninety-five Massachusetts hospitals on the ground that negotiations between the parties had not produced a proposed final contract by the Commission's deadline. The plaintiff hospitals...

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